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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. and during?—?the the search process. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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Cargo Cult Agile

The Product Coalition

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. The purpose of the whole exercise is to start a conversation about what part of your agile transition is going well and where action needs to be taken.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. “Why aren’t we getting more done?”

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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The Mindset of Empowerment by Laura Scanga

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. The simple exercise of building personas is highly effective in ensuring customers are front of mind when you make decisions. Build Personas.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Who was deciding on that output? We had a huge list of things that we wanted to do.